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Cogar, Oklahoma

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Binger-Hinton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73059. The Survey maps it on the Cogar quadrangle.

Cogar within Caddo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Cogar between 2000 and 2020, burning about 3,336 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
17 July 2003Debris and open burning65 acresAnadarko AgencyRAINWOOD
13 June 2010Equipment and vehicle use82 acresAnadarko AgencyCANNEDY
30 March 2005Debris and open burning93 acresAnadarko AgencyCOGAR
12 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,950 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryCEDAR LAKE
24 December 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAnadarko AgencyCOZAD
17 December 2009Debris and open burning60 acresAnadarko AgencySTINKFOOT
3 November 2019Equipment and vehicle use10 acresAnadarko AgencyCEDAR LAKE
6 October 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresAnadarko AgencySAYLER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caddo County

Storms near this place

22 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cogar in 22 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 16 hail, 4 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1997Thunderstorm WindCogar$20,000Severe thunderstorm winds, probably associated with a thunderstorm downburst, blew the roof and patio off a trailer house. A light pole was also blown over onto a house and tin an 2x4 boards were forced into the ground.
November 2008Thunderstorm WindCogar$7,000Several three-inch oak tree limbs were downed by the strong winds. Monetary damages were estimated.
August 2007Tornado (EF0)Cogar$5,000Tree damage was noted from a tornado that moved north in the northeast corner of Caddo County to the northeast of Cogar. The damage path indicated that the tornado crossed into Canadian County about 0.3 miles west of the Canadian/Caddo/Grady county intersection. Monetary damages were estimated.|
May 2003Tornado (F0)Cogar$5,000This is the first segment of a tornado that started in Caddo County and moved east-northeast before dissipating just after crossing into Grady County, nine miles west-northwest of Minco. The tornado began near the intersection of EW115 Road and NS274 Road then traveled 1.2 miles dissipating just to the northeast of the location a quarter mile north of EW115 Road on the county line road of NS275 Road. A homestead was damaged with tree limbs snapped, stockade fence blown over, a camper trailer blown sideways, a trampoline lofted, and swing set blown over. This occurred shortly before the tornado crossed the county line.
May 1999Tornado (F1)Cogar$1,000Tornado B9. See summary at end of May 3rd storm reports.
March 2026HailCogar-The report was relayed through mPING.
March 2008Tornado (EF0)Cogar-A storm chaser submitted a photograph of a tornado near Cogar. No known damage occurred. The location and time are estimated.
August 2013HailCogar-no account filed
February 2009HailCogar-no account filed
March 2009HailCogar-no account filed
May 2005HailCogar-no account filed
May 2003HailCogar-no account filed
May 2002HailCogar-no account filed
October 2001HailCogar-no account filed
October 2001HailCogar-no account filed
April 1999HailCogar-no account filed
April 1999HailCogar-no account filed
June 1998HailCogar-no account filed
June 1998HailCogar-no account filed
June 1995HailCogar-no account filed
April 1994HailCogar-no account filed
April 1994HailCogar-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Caddo County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Spring Creek5.7 miles10
Dutton9.2 miles9
Binger11.3 miles11
Gracemont12.2 miles13
Lookeba12.7 miles11
Three-Way Corner15.2 miles10
Hinton15.2 miles10
Albert16.4 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on CogarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5141080The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100310. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.